[wplug] Newbie question on graphical login

[Henry Umansky]

When I said "which is multi-user, network, but no X OS", I meant you still 
have X, but it won't start till you type "startx".

-Henry

--On Monday, November 11, 2002 9:42 AM -0500 Henry Umansky 
<hmust2+ at pitt.edu> wrote:r

> There is no advantage or disadvantage except ascetics and system
> resources. If you want to get rid of graphical login, edit the file
> /etc/inittab. Look for a line like this:
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> and replace it with this
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> This should make you start your machine at run level 3 which is
> multi-user, network, but no X OS.
>
> -Henry
>
> --On Monday, November 11, 2002 9:21 AM -0500 Mark Haney
> <haney01 at email.franklin.edu> wrote:r
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Most questions I have seen on graphical login are related to how to get
>> it to work. Well, I can't seem to get it to go away!
>>
>> I installed Debian 3.0, and when the tasksel screen came up I chose only
>> the 'X Window System' and 'Dialup System' tasks. The install worked,but
>> when I booted into the system, up came the graphical logon screen (xdm).
>> I thought I could get rid of it by 'apt-get remove xdm'. Nope. It went
>> away yesterday, but when I booted the system today, the graphical login
>> screen popped up again!
>>
>> So, my questions are:
>> 1) Is there any advantage to the graphical login? I would rather login to
>> the command line, and use 'startx' if I want to use X. I know I can get a
>> command line using the virtual terminals, but this is an old machine, and
>> I don't want x running and sucking up resources.
>>
>> 2) How can I make Debian boot into the command line? (I'm currently also
>> researching this on my own... it must have something to do with the init
>> scripts and run levels, but at my newbie stage I haven't been able to
>> find and fix it yet.)
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> Mark
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>
> Henry Umansky
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Systems/Programmer III
www.pitt.edu/~hmust2
hmust2 at pitt.edu
(412)624-4357